Red Cross To Open Shelter, Clean Up Kits Now Available
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, July 28, 2010 – The Grant Wood Area Chapter of the American Red Cross is opening an emergency shelter on Thursday and Friday at the Earlville Elementary School, 213 Stow Street, Earlville, to help residents impacted by the flood by offering a safe place to stay, a hot meal, minor first aid, and a shoulder to lean on. The shelter will open at 3 p.m. on Thursday.
With RAGBRAI coming through the area, residents who have elected to stay in hotels while displaced from their homes may now need overnight shelter. The Red Cross shelter is only for residents displaced by flooding, not RAGBRAI riders.
Red Cross emergency response vehicles are providing food, bottled water and clean up kits today in Manchester, Lake Delhi, Monticello and Olin.
The Red Cross is also offering clean up kits beginning this afternoon in the following locations:
Edgewood City Hall, 203 West Union Street, Edgewood
Hopkinton City Hall, 115 Southwest 1st Street, Hopkinton
Lake Delhi Area, Barb DeKlotz home, 20796 262nd St, Delhi
Manchester Community Services Building, 601 Grant Street, Manchester
Independence Fire Department, 113 4th Ave SE, Independence
Monticello City Hall, 200 East 1st Street, Monticello
As of Tuesday, July 27, the Red Cross has provided approximately 1,400 meals and snacks and 2,900 bottles of water to residents in Buchanan, Delaware and Jones counties affected by flooding.
You can help people affected by disasters like floods, fires, tornadoes and hurricanes, as well as countless crises at home and around the world, by making a donation to support American Red Cross Disaster Relief. Your gift enables the Red Cross to prepare for and provide shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance in response to disasters. Visit www.redcross.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS. Contributions may also be sent to your local American Red Cross chapter or to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013.
